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1953 A Group

The 1953 A Group was the fifth season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

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A Group
Season1953
ChampionsLevski Sofia
(8th title)
Matches223
Goals484 (2.17 per match)
Top goalscorerDimitar Minchev
(15 goals)
← 1952
1954 →

The 1953 A Group was the fifth season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.1

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Relegation
1 Levski Sofia (C) 28 19 5 4 48 22 +26 43
2 CSKA Sofia 28 18 6 4 64 23 +41 42
3 Cherno More Varna 28 12 7 9 29 20 +9 31
4 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 28 9 13 6 30 29 +1 31
5 Slavia Sofia 28 9 12 7 42 33 +9 30
6 Spartak Pleven 28 9 12 7 29 29 0 30
7 Lokomotiv Sofia 28 10 9 9 30 32 −2 29
8 Minyor Pernik 28 11 6 11 33 35 −2 28
9 Spartak Plovdiv 28 9 9 10 29 29 0 27
10 Akademik Varna (R) 28 9 7 12 26 43 −17 25 Relegation to 1954 B Group
11 Botev Plovdiv (R) 28 8 8 12 29 31 −2 24
12 Spartak Sofia (R) 28 5 14 9 24 34 −10 24
13 Stroitel Sofia (R) 28 5 12 11 22 29 −7 22
14 VVS Sofia (R) 28 6 9 13 26 35 −9 21
15 Marek Dupnitsa (R) 28 3 7 18 23 60 −37 13
– Unified team of VSOa (R) 13 11 0 2 37 8 +29 0b
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. "Unified team of volunteer's sport organisations" is the name of the national football team of Bulgaria which participated in the league
  2. Results annulled

Results

Home \ Away AVA BPD CHM CSK LEV LPL LSO MAR MIN SLA SPL SPD SSF STR VVS
Akademik Varna 0–1 1–0 0–1 0–4 2–2 0–2 3–0a 3–2 2–0 0–0 2–1 3–1 0–0 1–0
Botev Plovdiv 1–1 1–1 0–3 0–1 0–1 0–1 3–0a 1–2 2–2 4–0 0–0 0–0 2–2 3–0
Cherno More 0–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 2–1 3–2 1–0 3–0 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 3–2
CSKA Sofia 7–0 2–0 0–0 0–1 5–0 3–1 3–0a 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–1 7–1 2–2 1–0
Levski Sofia 4–1 0–1 1–0 0–5 5–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 3–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv 0–0 2–0 0–0 0–1 0–2 0–0 4–3 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
Lokomotiv Sofia 3–1 0–1 2–0 0–4 0–3 2–2 3–0a 0–1 0–5 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–1 1–1
Marek Dupnitsa 2–2 1–0 0–0 1–2 0–3a 0–3a 1–1 1–2 0–3a 2–2 4–1 0–0 1–0 1–3
Minyor Pernik 2–0 1–4 3–2 1–3 1–2 1–1 0–1 4–1 2–3 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–0
Slavia Sofia 1–1 5–2 0–2 1–2 1–2 1–1 1–2 1–1 0–3 2–1 0–0 4–1 1–1 2–0
Spartak Pleven 3–0 0–0 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 4–2 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 3–0 1–0
Spartak Plovdiv 1–0 2–1 0–3 0–1 3–0 1–1 1–0 4–0 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 2–1
Spartak Sofia 1–0 1–2 1–0 2–2 1–1 3–3 0–0 3–0a 2–0 0–0 2–3 1–1 0–0 1–1
Stroitel Sofia 3–0 1–0 0–1 2–2 3–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 0–0
VVS Sofia 1–2 0–0 2–1 3–0 2–3 0–3 2–2 1–0 3–0 0–3 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–2
Source: A PFG (in Bulgarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. Marek Dupnitsa was excluded after spectator riots in the match against Minyor Pernik. The remaining eight matches were rated 0–3 for the opponents.

Champions

Levski Sofia
Goalkeepers
Bulgaria Simeon Kostov 19 (0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Elenkov 8 (0)
Defenders
Bulgaria Metodi Angelovski 20 (0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Dimitrov 1 (0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Iliev 19 (0)
Italy Amedeo Kleva 24 (0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Doychinov 8 (0)
Bulgaria Ivan Dimchev 23 (0)
Midfielders
Bulgaria Dragan Georgiev 11 (1)
Bulgaria Aleksandar Krastev 17 (0)
Bulgaria Lyubomir Hranov 17 (3)
Bulgaria Aleksandar Bahchevandzhiev 1 (0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Kontev 2 (0)
Bulgaria Ivan Georgiev 14 (1)
Bulgaria Stefan Abadzhiev 14 (5)
Forwards
Bulgaria Dimitar Andonov 21 (12)
Bulgaria Arsen Dimitrov 4 (1)
Bulgaria Vasil Spasov 24 (10)
Bulgaria Todor Stoyanov 4 (0)
Bulgaria Todor Takev 25 (6)
Bulgaria Dimitar Popdimitrov 1 (0)
Bulgaria Georgi Kardashev 6 (1)
Bulgaria Yordan Tomov 20 (4)
Manager
Bulgaria Dimitar Mutafchiev

Top scorers

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Bulgaria Dimitar Minchev Spartak Pleven
VVS Sofia 		15
2 Bulgaria Dimitar Andonov Levski Sofia 12
3 Bulgaria Kiril Nikolov Marek Dupnitsa 11
4 Bulgaria Vasil Spasov Levski Sofia 10
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